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FPSC Classic Product Chat / Entity terrain vs segments

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Archangel Sirius
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Posted: 3rd May 2013 22:52
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I'm trying to maximize the fps while minimizing the amount of memory used during compilation. From those of you who are better experienced than I, would you recommend sticking to segments for my "terrain" or using a huge entity (as can be found in Rolfy's weather pack for example)?
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mnemonic
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Posted: 6th May 2013 00:01
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Hmmmm,, I'd say segments. Segments is a little like 'tiles' but in 3d. Imagine that you are making a map at full size then you could say that these 'tiles' 'chops' up the large 'terrain' into smaller pieces.

the larger the entity is the harder it is for the GPU to render it and it can cause some performance issues as would be the case if you'd use a huge entity.

I don't know the hardware specs of the machine running it so I think you should try anyway with your plans. Maybe it works fine and then I'd gladly eat up my words

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